Family

Learn about the most up-to-date research about rural community stress and resilience, and find out how people in Minnesota are using it creatively in their communities.

Wellness and healing kits delivered to Indigenous communities in Minnesota and South Dakota. Learn more about this Extension partnership.

It has been a busy 2021 for Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program’s (EFNEP) community nutrition educators filled with challenges from the pandemic. Learn more about a recent partnership celebrating women.

All kids need a strong individual and group identity, but racism hurts the healthy development of both. The Military Families Learning Network collaborated with Sesame Street to introduce military family service providers to new resources.

Somali halal grocery stores play an important role in shaping, improving and strengthening local food environments in Minnesota. Yet there is little known on how these stores manage to operate sustainably during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about what Extension is doing.

Many families across Minnesota and nationally are dealing with changing income and expenses and need help learning how to manage spending and saving plans. Community partners are looking for ways to help families navigate these tough times.

From nutrition programs, to youth and families, to agriculture and leadership, participants in University of Minnesota Extension education find strategies that bring them to their own optimum state of mental health.

Extension family resiliency educators are offering webinars around finances during crisis, health and wellness connections, parenting and letting go of clutter and more.

Parenting can be stressful during the best of times. Throw in a pandemic, uncertainty in school and work schedules, financial worries and civil unrest, parenting can be overwhelming.

During the pandemic, Extension SNAP-Ed educator Nimo Yusuf found an alternative way to connect with Minnesota’s Somali community.